and the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, as prescribed in accordance with their number;
also one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its grain offering and its drink offering.
39 These you shall offer to the LORD at your appointed festivals, in addition to your votive offerings and your freewill offerings, as your burnt offerings, your grain offerings, your drink offerings, and your offerings of well-being.
40[74 (#ulink_1d6663bc-6f5f-5849-95b7-f835bd7d76eb)] So Moses told the Israelites everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
For reflection: Numbers 29:1–40
If you devoted every moment of your whole life exclusively to His service you could not give Him anything that was not in a sense His own already.
—from Mere Christianity
30 Then Moses said to the heads of the tribes of the Israelites: This is what the LORD has commanded.
When a man makes a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
3 When a woman makes a vow to the LORD, or binds herself by a pledge, while within her father’s house, in her youth,
and her father hears of her vow or her pledge by which she has bound herself, and says nothing to her; then all her vows shall stand, and any pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand.
But if her father expresses disapproval to her at the time that he hears of it, no vow of hers, and no pledge by which she has bound herself, shall stand; and the LORD will forgive her, because her father had expressed to her his disapproval.
6 If she marries, while obligated by her vows or any thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she has bound herself,
and her husband hears of it and says nothing to her at the time that he hears, then her vows shall stand, and her pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.
But if, at the time that her husband hears of it, he expresses disapproval to her, then he shall nullify the vow by which she was obligated, or the thoughtless utterance of her lips, by which she bound herself; and the LORD will forgive her.
(But every vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, by which she has bound herself, shall be binding upon her.)
And if she made a vow in her husband’s house, or bound herself by a pledge with an oath,
and her husband heard it and said nothing to her, and did not express disapproval to her, then all her vows shall stand, and any pledge by which she bound herself shall stand.
But if her husband nullifies them at the time that he hears them, then whatever proceeds out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning her pledge of herself, shall not stand. Her husband has nullified them, and the LORD will forgive her.
Any vow or any binding oath to deny herself,[75 (#ulink_b131c8af-c1b1-59c6-8023-c1eda3aee0d8)] her husband may allow to stand, or her husband may nullify.
But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day,[76 (#ulink_4880e0a2-c42c-56ec-95e4-0f2e1dba193d)] then he validates all her vows, or all her pledges, by which she is obligated; he has validated them, because he said nothing to her at the time that he heard of them.
But if he nullifies them some time after he has heard of them, then he shall bear her guilt.
16 These are the statutes that the LORD commanded Moses concerning a husband and his wife, and a father and his daughter while she is still young and in her father’s house.
31 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
“Avenge the Israelites on the Midianites; afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”
So Moses said to the people, “Arm some of your number for the war, so that they may go against Midian, to execute the LORD’s vengeance on Midian.
You shall send a thousand from each of the tribes of Israel to the war.”
So out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe were conscripted, twelve thousand armed for battle.
Moses sent them to the war, a thousand from each tribe, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest,[77 (#ulink_235476b7-41bd-5a9a-b316-50aeb122cba0)] with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for sounding the alarm in his hand.
They did battle against Midian, as the LORD had commanded Moses, and killed every male.
They killed the kings of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian, in addition to others who were slain by them; and they also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.
The Israelites took the women of Midian and their little ones captive; and they took all their cattle, their flocks, and all their goods as booty.
All their towns where they had settled, and all their encampments, they burned,
but they took all the spoil and all the booty, both people and animals.
Then they brought the captives and the booty and the spoil to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the Israelites, at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
13 Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation went to meet them outside the camp.
Moses became angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who had come from service in the war.
Moses said to them, “Have you allowed all the women to live?
These women here, on Balaam’s advice, made the Israelites act treacherously against the LORD in the affair of Peor, so that the plague came among the congregation of the LORD.
Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by sleeping with him.
But all the young girls who have not known a man by sleeping with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Camp outside the camp seven days; whoever of you has killed any person or touched a corpse, purify yourselves and your captives on the third and on the seventh day.
You shall purify every garment, every article of skin, everything made of goats’ hair, and every article of wood.”
21 Eleazar the priest said to the troops who had gone to battle: “This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded Moses:
gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—
everything that can withstand fire, shall be passed through fire, and it shall be clean. Nevertheless it shall also be purified with the water for purification; and whatever cannot withstand fire, shall be passed through the water.
You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; afterward you may come into the camp.”
25 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
“You and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the ancestral houses of the congregation make an inventory of the booty captured, both human and animal.
Divide the booty into two parts, between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation.
